embarcation

American  

[em-bahr-key-shuhn] / ˌɛm bɑrˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. embarkation.

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Other Word Forms

• reembarcation noun

Example Sentences

This week the volunteers were packing up for embarcation at Buenaventura.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why did we leap forward to volunteer before we were wanted and continue to leap till, for very boredom, they sent us embarcation orders and a free warrant?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 by Various

A few days after their arrival at Acre, the king gave orders for the embarcation of the troops.

From Winning His Spurs A Tale of the Crusades by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

A railway line connected with the South-Eastern and Chatham system runs to its head, and in July 1903 it was brought into use for the embarcation of passengers by transatlantic liners.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

In the first place, since the cloves are carried from the Malucas by the hand of a third party, your Majesty loses the third due on embarcation.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander